“The wind that sighs before the dawn
Chases the gloom of night,
The curtains of the East are drawn,
And suddenly—'t is light.”

— Lewis Morris (poet)

Le Vent de l'Esprit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Welsh poet in the English language 1833–1907

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